Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Path diversity for customer-to-customer traffic
- Patent Title (中): 客户到客户流量的路径多样性
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Application No.: US11604624Application Date: 2006-11-27
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Publication No.: US07710902B2Publication Date: 2010-05-04
- Inventor: Jean-Philippe Vasseur , Jim Guichard
- Applicant: Jean-Philippe Vasseur , Jim Guichard
- Applicant Address: US CA San Jose
- Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Jose
- Agency: Cesari and McKenna, LLP
- Main IPC: H04L12/56
- IPC: H04L12/56 ; H04J1/16

Abstract:
In one embodiment, egress provider edge devices (PEs) send advertisements to ingress PEs for address prefixes of a first multi-homed customer network that desires path diversity through a service provider network to a second customer network. A first ingress PE receives the advertisements, and determines whether a second ingress PE is multi-homed with the first ingress PE to the second customer network. If so, the first ingress PE computes a plurality of diverse paths within the service provider network from the first and second multi-homed ingress PEs to a corresponding egress PE. If a plurality of diverse paths exists, the first ingress PE employs one of those paths to establish a first tunnel from itself to a first egress PE, and the second ingress PE employs another of the paths to establish a second tunnel from itself to a second egress PE that is diverse from the first tunnel.
Public/Granted literature
- US20080123651A1 Path diversity for customer-to-customer traffic Public/Granted day:2008-05-29
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